
The Night Guest
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Mary Robinette Kowal
This program is read by author and narrator Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.
Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.
When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same—have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.
Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .
What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
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Critic reviews
“Surreal and spectacular. . . . This is psychological horror at its finest.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"Like the flashes of a waking nightmare, Knútsdóttir’s artful spiral of terror will have fans of Ling Ma, Paula Hawkins, and other flawed female narrators demanding more."—Booklist
"From its opening pages, Hildur Knútsdóttir's eerie and elegant The Night Guest wraps its icy fingers around you and pulls you in. It's so atmospheric, so well-crafted, and so truly, deeply unsettling that by the end, you feel every bit as haunted as its sleepless heroine. If you're a horror fan—or just a fan of great writing in general—you need to have this one on your radar!"—Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs
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Interesting & creepy
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Excellent writing to maintain tension
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kept me listening
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Good writing, disappointing ending
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This author clearly went to the Tana French School of Loose Ends, where they firmly believe that the best way to end a story is to give the reader absolutely no closure. It feels like the author was writing this for a timed exam, and when the teacher said, “Pencils down!”, she hurled hers across the room, got up, and walked out.
2 stars for being mildly entertaining up to the last 25%, and 1 more star for wasting less than 3 hours of my life. Would not read anything else by this author.
Fun until it wasn’t
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Enthralling, Creepy, Poignant
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GREAT CONCEPT & has a lot of creepiness, lots of tension !!! Also is a very quick listen!
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Creepy and Disorienting
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I kept reading it until I finished it in a day, I enjoyed the unusual structure of the story. I wouldn't say that I'm a regular horror fan but this story hit me just right with a terrifying plot but not graphic violence or gore. CW: animals are killed off page.
Brilliant for spooky season.
The perfect read for a long train ride
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I gave it three stars only because I felt guilty giving two.
Additionally, narrator has odd diction, and the main character is unlikable. It all amounted to too much distraction that could have been overcome had the writing not been so predictable.
Save your dollars
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